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A group of professional hockey players gather facing each other on a hockey rink. Stuffed animals are on the ice around them and flying through the air from the spectators who are throwing them.

2025 GIANT Teddy Bear Toss benefits Penn State Health Children’s Hospital

Jan 10, 2025

Fans showered the ice with over 100,000 teddy bears and stuffed animals at the GIANT Teddy Bear Toss and Hershey Bears hockey game on Jan. 5.

A baby lays on her mother's chest while dad crouches by their hospital bed.

Penn State Health welcomes 2025 New Year’s babies

Jan 1, 2025

Penn State Health Labor and Delivery units across central Pennsylvania celebrated the new year by welcoming the first babies of 2025.

Mack Ruffin IV, MD, MPH, sits for a professional portrait next to an historical marker about the nation's first Department of Family Medicine being established at Penn State College of Medicine in 1967.

Ruffin leaves lasting impact as family and community medicine chair

Dec 20, 2024

Mack Ruffin IV, MD, MPH, will retire as chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center earns 2024 Leapfrog Top Hospital Award for outstanding quality, safety

Dec 17, 2024

Penn State Health Lancaster Medical Center has been named a Top General Hospital by the Leapfrog Group, just one of three hospitals in Pennsylvania to earn that designation and the […]

Penn State Health, Mid Penn Bank raise $340,000, passing $1 million mark during ninth annual ‘No Shave November’

Dec 9, 2024

Penn State Health and Mid Penn Bank raised $340,000 through their ninth consecutive “No Shave November” campaign, officially crossing the $1 million mark for funds raised since the launch of this annual initiative.

A young girl in a hospital bed, in a room filled with medical equipment and other supplies, smiles as she reached out to accept a gift of a small stuffed animal from Santa Claus.

‘We can bring the Santa magic back’: Santa makes a stop at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital

Dec 6, 2024

Santa Claus brought holiday cheer from the North Pole to patients at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital, riding in on a fire truck with the Hershey Volunteer Fire Department.

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Penn State Health presents adaptive bike to young girl recovering from tragic accident

Nov 27, 2024

Penn State Health’s Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation presented a custom adaptive bike to a 9-year-old girl who was paralyzed from the waist down in an automobile accident earlier this year.

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Penn State Health achieves substantial financial turnaround in FY24

Nov 26, 2024

Penn State Health achieved a significant financial turnaround in fiscal year 2024, demonstrating improved performance across a range of metrics compared to the previous fiscal year. The organization has sustained its momentum with continued revenue growth in the first quarter of fiscal year 2025.

Three people smile enthusiastically as they pose with poster containing the dollar amount $387,731.16.

‘Pay 4 Play’ on WQXA 105.7 THE X raises $387,731 for Penn State Health Children’s Hospital

Nov 22, 2024

The 18th annual People’s Pay 4 Play on WQXA-FM 105.7 THE X on Nov. 21 and 22 raised $387,731.16 for Children’s Miracle Network at Penn State Health Children’s Hospital.

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Students host interfaith discussion on medical ethics and religion

Nov 21, 2024

College of Medicine student leaders from five organizations hosted an Interfaith Panel Discussion on Medical Ethics and Religion on Thursday, Nov. 14.

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